Canyon County, ID Business Licensing & Operations: Pawnbrokers (2026)

00 license processing fee, on top of the separate state pawnbroker tax imposed by Idaho Code § 63-2303. Applications go to the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, and the Sheriff investigates every applicant before the Board acts. The Board must deny a license to anyone under eighteen, and may deny one if the applicant was convicted of a felony involving moral turpitude in the preceding five years; it must deny a license outright if the applicant's pawnbroker or secondhand dealer license was denied, revoked or suspended by any County, State or other local agency within the prior three years.

A denied applicant has fifteen days from the Board's written decision to file a notice of appeal with the Clerk of the Board, and the appeal proceeds under Idaho's Administrative Procedure Act; missing the fifteen-day window waives the right to appeal. The license runs one year and can be revoked for failing to keep up any requirement of the Article. Once licensed, a pawnbroker cannot sell property received in pledge until both the loan term and a thirty-day grace period expire, under § 05-05-21, and every pledge transaction must be documented in writing, with a copy given to the pledgor stating the loan term, due date, and the thirty-day redemption right.

A pawnbroker must also keep a fixed place of business inside Canyon County or the State under § 05-05-09. None of this reaches Caldwell or Nampa, each of which licenses pawnbrokers under its own city code.